Max Voyse - Blog

Hey hope this goes ok I don't really know what I'm doing lol. I'm in D6 with Luke, the darkest of Will's (in joke), Verity and Amy. Verity is the Project Manager, Amy is the Camera Operator (probably spelt it wrong), Will is the Picture Editor and Luke is the Sound Editor and I'm the Sound Recorder. We look a strong group and all seemed to be organised the roles were given with no fuss about what anyone wanted. I did want to be either the Camera Op or the Picture Editor given I hated recording sound before hand but since the last piece of coursework I enjoyed doing the sound so I was not fussed so long as i didn't get Sound Editor :p We all know what we are doing and each are willing to help out in all areas. I'm hoping Luke will help me record sound because I know he had a really good sound piece.

We then had to come up with ideas, I had a idea from the off using something that happened in my life and I thought I could I change that into a journey story, so that night I brainstormed and wrote a script for the part. Will had a really good idea about a magician who goes missing and his son takes his role. It was a good idea but it had a lot of practical problems which is a shame because it would have turned out a good idea. Luke had a brilliant idea about someone who dies then is in the afterlife with most of the film being the main character trying to find out the reason why he had his life taken all of a sudden. There was another character who we thought could be the grim reaper and I really liked this character so its one of the reasons why I wanted to do this piece. Verity's was a good idea as well, her was an event that bought a number of people together with each of the people's journey to that place shown through their own story. I really liked the idea and thought it would be a challenge to accomplice and would pull off really well if done properly. After a meeting we had a couple of days before the treatment had to be in ironed out some of the problems we had with our ideas.
On that night I started to treatment but I could not think of the narrative development so I had to change the idea, I felt the original idea would look cheesy throughout the 5 mins because I could not think of much to put between. So I changed the idea, I got inspiration from a scene in 28 Days Later where all the main characters were in a car driving away from London and there is a track from Brian Eno in the background. Its one of my fave scenes from the film so my idea was similar.

My Idea:
A man is sat talking to the camera covered in blood warning the world about the 'virus' that is spreading throughout Britain, in doing so we see the camera cut as he looks shocked and turns then it blacks out. We then cut back earlier in the day where he is sat while a news programme is on worrying about all his family and life in general. He feels he has to warn the world about what has happened in case this 'virus' gets out. He makes his way to his work. The bio-genetic labs called 'The Watchtower'. Most of the journey is in a car him wondering through the streets gone midnight and we see all the infected wondering the streets, he gets to 'The Watchtower' and proceeds inside. As he does so he is attacked and fends off the infected covering himself in the process. We then see him fighting his way through the building trying to find the Com's room and when getting there he sees that he has been followed and has no place to run. So then were back to the start where he gives his monologue to the camera then dies afterwards.

When we handed in the treatments we had to pick two of them to pitch, we picked Luke's and Verity's to pitch and me and Luke pitched them. When it came to I thought there were only going to be three people there them being Malcolm, Chris and Niel but all of the class were in there so it made me more nervous and when pitching me and Luke sounded like we were having a conversation rather than pitching. Verity's idea was picked out of the two and now were working on who is going to do the script. I want something to do with the script because I like writing and I've not done much of it so this would be a good experience. However I could make a tit of myself and it turn out badly, Will has had experience with scripts so he would be a good writer on the piece and Luke has pretty much contributed a lot to the idea so he would be a asset to helping with the script. Also I have been able to get a hold of some of my friends who are good actors/actresses, they are willing to help with the project so I believe we have the cast there.

We have had a meeting after then but I wan not able to make it because I have fallen ill, they have said it might be glandular fever which I caught last year so I tend to feel tired a lot of the time and I have also lost some of my hearing in my left ear, but I'm starting to feel well again so I should be on the mend and ready for the project soon.